10 June 2008 - 18H28
Truckers' strike in Europe causes casualties
A truck driver in southern Spain and another in Portugal were killed on Tuesday, as strikes to protest rising fuel prices by hauliers in Spain, Portugal and France gain momentum.
A truck driver was run over and killed by a van Tuesday as he was working on a picket line in southern Spain during a strike by hauliers protesting high fuel prices, police said.
The incident occurred at the entrance to a wholesale market in Grenada Tuesday evening, a police official in the city told AFP.
Earlier Tuesday, a Portuguese driver was killed near Alcanena, north of Lisbon, as he tried to stop a lorry at a road block set up by the strikers, police said.
Strikes launched Monday by truckers in Spain, France and Portugal have caused mounting chaos, with food and fuel shortages and huge tailbacks on the Spanish-French border.
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